The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.